Sandra Layne, 75, talks to her attorney Jerome Sabbota in a July hearing. She will be tried in the killing of her grandson this week.

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Two divergent pictures of Sandra Layne are expected to emerge in her trial this week: one of a grandmother who gunned down her teenage grandson as he begged for help on a 911 call and another of a terrified woman who had been repeatedly threatened by an angry teenager who was out of control and on drugs.

Layne, 75, goes on trial Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court on a charge of open murder in the death of Jonathan Hoffman, 17.